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Side Effects
Mexican Governance Under NAFTA’s Labor and Environmental Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords—called "side agreements"—that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and environmental laws; though never codified,...
Bootstrapping Democracy
Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether...
The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America
Institutions, Actors, and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms of various types in the last two decades, including...
Dilemmas of Modernity
Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it offers an account of local encounters...
Revolution without Revolutionaries
Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact....
Surrounded
Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join...
Legacies of Race
Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as...
Race Migrations
Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants...
by Eric Van Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways...
Race on the Move
Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for...
Envisioning America
New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike...
Gridlock
Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however,...
The Last Best Place?
Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed...
The Rewards of Punishment
A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense....